Tag: 2022 Matings

Champion Gamine To Visit Quality Road For First Mating

Gamine, the champion female sprinter of 2020 and an Eclipse Award finalist for the same title in 2021, will visit Lane's End resident Quality Road for her first mating, bloodstock agent Donato Lanni announced Feb. 6 on social media.

The 5-year-old daughter of Into Mischief retired with nine wins in 11 starts for earnings of $1,771,500.

Gamine topped the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after selling to owner Michael Lund Petersen for $1.8 million. She secured the Eclipse Award as champion female sprinter at age three, with victories in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes and Test Stakes, and a capstone score in that year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland.

Gamine won the first four starts of her 2021 campaign, ticking off wins in the G3 Las Flores Stakes, G1 Derby City Distaff Stakes, G2 Great Lady M Stakes, and G1 Ballerina Handicap. Her final start saw her finish third in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar.

Bred in Kentucky by Grace Thoroughbred Holdings, Gamine is out of the stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane.

Quality Road, 16-year-old son of Elusive Quality, stands at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $150,000.

From nine crops of racing age, Quality Road has sired 432 winners and amassed combined progeny earnings of more than $65.2 million.

Quality Road has sired two Eclipse Award winners: Champion 2-year-old filly Caledonia Road and champion 3-year-old female Abel Tasman. Corniche, the winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, is a finalist – and the presumptive favorite – for champion 2-year-old male of 2021.

He is also responsible for Pegasus World Cup winner City of Light, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny, and Grade 1 winners including Dunbar Road, Bellafina, Spring Quality, Roadster, Salty, Illuminant, and Klimt.

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Grade 1 Winner Guarana To Be Bred To Charlatan In 2022

Hill 'n' Dale Farm announced today that Guarana, recently purchased from the Fasig-Tipton November Sale for $4.4 million, will visit multiple Grade 1 winner Charlatan, the farm's most recent addition to their roster at Xalapa Farm.

The model of consistency, millionaire Guarana compiled a record of five wins and a second from six starts. Awarded TDN Rising Star status after breaking her maiden by 14 3/4 lengths, she followed up that victory in her next start with a stakes record performance in the Grade 1 Acorn, winning by six lengths and defeating Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress.

She captured two of the three legs of New York's Filly Triple Tiara with her win in the G1 Coaching Club American Oaks. Her third Grade 1 win came at the expense of Mia Mischief in the Madison at Keeneland.

Out of a daughter of Breeders' Cup Champion Pleasant Home who is out of a half-sister to champion Sky Beauty, Guarana is reflective of the caliber of mare that Charlatan is attracting.

“We have received overwhelming interest in Charlatan from absolute top class breeders,” said Hill 'n' Dale president John G. Sikura. “We are looking to lead the way with our best mares as a bold sign of both our commitment to and our belief in Charlatan's chances at stud.”

Charlatan, a son of Speightstown, won the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby by six lengths and the Grade 1 Malibu by 4 1/2 lengths. With a record of four wins and a second from five starts, he retired with career earnings over $4 million.

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